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"Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education offers a series of critical perspectives concerning reconciliation and reconciliatory efforts between Canadian and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars address both theoretical and practical aspects of troubling reconciliation in education across various contexts with significant diversity of thought, approach, and socio-political location. Throughout, the work challenges mainstream reconciliation discourses. This timely, unflinching analysis will be invaluable to scholars and students of Indigenous studies, sociology, and education. Contributors: Daniela Bascuñán, Jennifer Brant, Liza Brechbill, Shawna Carroll, Frank Deer, George J. Sefa Dei (Nana Adusei Sefa Tweneboah), Lucy El-Sherif, Rachel yacaaʔał George, Celia Haig-Brown, Arlo Kempf, Jeannie Kerr, Ruth Green, David Newhouse, Amy Parent, Michelle Pidgeon, Robin Quantick, Jean-Paul Restoule, Toby Rollo, Mark Sinke, Sandra D. Styres, Lynne Wiltse, Dawn Zinga."--

Preliminary Material /George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf -- Mapping the Terrain – Towards a New Politics of Resistance /George J. Sefa Dei -- A Tool of Massive Erosion: Scientific Knowledge in the Neo-Colonial Enterprise /Gina Thésée -- On Silence and Dominant Accountability: A Critical Anticolonial Investigation of the Antiracism Classroom /Philip S.S. Howard -- Implicit Racism and the Brain: How Neurobiology Can Inform an Anti-Colonial, Anti-Racist Pedagogy /Serhat Unsal -- Is Decolonization Possible? /Njoki Nathani Wane -- Spiritual Politics: Politicizing the Black Church Tradition in Anti-Colonial Praxis /Elaine A. Brown Spencer -- Anti-Colonial Historiography: Interrogating Colonial Education /Arlo Kempf -- From Post-Colonial to Anti-Colonial Politics: Difference, Knowledge and R. v. R.D.S. /Leila Angod -- The Power of Oral Tradition: Critically Resisting the Colonial Footprint /Maryam Navabi -- Indigenous Knowledge in Jamaica: A Tool of Ideology in a Neo-Colonial Context /Mark V. Campbell -- Development Unmoored /Catherine Moffatt -- An Anti-Colonial Critique of Research Methodology /Jennifer Hales -- Remembering, Resisting: Casting an Anti-Colonial Gaze upon the Education of Diverse Students in Social Work Education /Billie Allan -- Invisible Violence and Spiritual Injury within Post-Secondary Institutions: An Anti-colonial Interrogation and Response /Marlene Ruck-Simmons -- Engendering Indigenous Knowledge /Lindsay Kerr -- Looking Forward – The Pedagogical Implications of Anti-Colonialism /George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf.

The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empire. This book revisits the colonial relations of culture and education, questions various embedded imperial procedures and extricates the strategic offerings of local ways of knowing which resisted colonial imposition. The contributors of this collection are concerned with the ways in which colonial education forms the governing edict for local peoples. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, the authors offer an alternative reading of conventional discussions of culture and what counts as knowledge concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and difference in the context of the Diaspora. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, Wane, Kempf and Simmons have put together a much-needed reader that could achieve the critical reconstructions for the timely re-voice-ing of anti-colonial and Indigenous knowledge systems that introspectively and deeply mediate the lives of people. It is a comprehensive, multi-locational, well-structured work that should represent an important milestone in harnessing the long-awaited inclusive epistemological platforms that must teach, empower and inspire those who seek different cultural ways of knowing

Almost a decade in, Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production, and North America remains at the apex of the colonial imperative. The contributors to this volume argue that, far from being a post-colonial world, the struggle for independence of polity and culture is still alive and relevant. The book brings together relevant examples of anti-colonial discourse and struggle from across the US and Canada, providing unique perspectives on resistance, activism, scholarship and pedagogy. Anti-colonialism is an evolving framework to which this book hopes to make a unique contribution, with the range, depth and analytical approach of the chapters it contains. The emphasis on anti-colonial resistance here is significant, as it consistently reveals the personal commitment required for the undoing of domination, as well as the ways in which people can collectively pursue radical politics in their aim of bringing about social justice. The book examines a multitude of actions which could be termed anti-colonial, from student walkouts along the US/Mexico border, to interrogations of the relationship between indigenous and anti-racist struggles in North America, to analyses of the implications of anti-colonialism for community unionism as well as disability rights struggles. Chapters also look at the movement for Africentric schools in Toronto, provide an annotated and comparative look at the myriad struggles for and by the Fourth World and Fourth World nations, and analyze the creation of an anti-colonial classroom in a Montreal university. They also explore the colonial underpinnings of multicultural education in the US. With contributions from leading thinkers such as Henry Giroux, Ward Churchill, and Peter McLaren, as well as fresh perspectives from junior academics, this book provides a diverse and varied survey of anti-colonialism in the US and Canada. It will be a